Easy does it…
The road to hell.
Salve Regina has a sobering post containing the sayings of the Saints on hell. Evidently there are few in number who will be saved. Our Lady told the children at Fatima, “Many souls go to hell because there are few to pray and make sacrifices for them.” So it does appear that many are lost and few are saved.
That those who walk in the way of salvation are the smaller number is due to the vice and depraved habits imbibed in youth and nourished in childhood. By these means Lucifer has hurled into Hell so great a number of souls, and continues thus to hurl them into Hell every day, casting so many nations from abyss to abyss of darkness and errors, such as are contained in the heresies and false sects of the infidels. Venerable Mary of Agreda -Salve Regina Blog
September 21st, 2007 at 11:45 am
Thanks for the link, Terry. Great pic you have accompanying your post!
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:14 am
As a teen and young adult I used to get the morbid horrors
reading accounts by Maria of Agreda, et.al. Of course hell is a reality to be avoided at all cost. But I have found dwelling on it to be spiritually paralyzing rather than motivating. A wise friend once gave me the advice, that when troubled by thoughts of the devil and hell, to focus my attention on Our Lord, Who desires my salvation more than I desire it myself, and who will surely lead me to it.